Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.
I know some real intellectual people who might laugh, very close friends who might laugh when I'm said to be an intellectual.
To be "here and now," in principle, is just for once. And then you have to repeat that.
I was raised and I was going to school in the suburbs of Paris. And so we, I didn't really go to the riots, to the barricade. I was too young, actually. Rather young.
Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real
Before I do a play I say that I hope it's going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. It's like a drug.
Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture.
I feel the need. . . the need for speed.
He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.
There was a time when a willingness to criticize one's own government when it was wrong was the very definition of patriotism.
Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.